Legislation authored by Edwin Ruthven Bryan

Includes legislation with Edwin Ruthven Bryan as the primary author for the 34th through 35th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
Please note author information is not complete for the 43rd through 45th Legislatures or for sessions prior to the 30th.

35th Regular Session
HB 354 Caption: Relating to reorganizing the Thirty-eighth, the Fifty-first, the Sixty-third and the Seventieth Judicial Districts of the State of Texas.
HB 533 Caption: Relating to providing for the filing of suits by cities, towns, and villages incorporated under general laws to enforce the payment of delinquent taxes, providing for the filing of such suits by the city attorney or by the mayor or attorney employed for that purpose; providing for the stay of execution for ninety days and for the redemption of property so sold within six months therefore.
HB 579 Caption: Relating to amending Civil Statutes pertaining to insurance.
HB 674 Caption: Relating to the ordering and holding of elections for the removal of county seats by the County Judge or any two members of the Commissioners' Court of any county.
HB 790 Caption: Relating to creating the Stanton Independent School District of Martin county, Texas, by adding to the present Stanton Independent School District more territory.
HR 23 Caption: Providing for the printing of a calendar of bills.
HR 70 Caption: Providing Adele Whittle compensation for their work as temporary stenographer.
HR 96 Caption: Recalling H.B. No. 354 from the Senate.
35th 1st Called Session
HB 59 Caption: Relating to creating the Fort Stockton Independent School District at Fort Stockton in Pecos county, Texas.
HB 81 Caption: Relating to amending the law relating to the inspection of hides and animals to exempt Ector and Martin counties.
35th 2nd Called Session
HR 18 Caption: Providing the Chief Clerk of the House a budget of $10 for the purchase of postage stamps.
HR 30 Caption: Providing that the stenographers be furnished with the necessary stationary.
35th 3rd Called Session
HB 15 Caption: Relating to reorganizing the Seventieth Judicial District of the State of Texas, and to make all process issued or served before this Act takes effect, including recognizances and bonds, returnable to the terms of the courts as herein fixed.
35th 4th Called Session
HB 81 Caption: Relating to providing for the sale, lease, transfer, patenting and forfeiture of the land belonging to certain public school and asylum lands by amending certain laws.
HB 82 Caption: Relating to amending certain acts relating to the delivery of patents.
HB 83 Caption: Relating to amending Article 3842 Revised Civil Statutes of 1911 relating to fees chargeable by the General Land Office of Texas.
HB 84 Caption: Relating to amending certain acts relating to the development of minerals in public lands by requiring applications to be file din the General Land Office and providing that permits shall be issued to the one who makes the highest cash offer for the area in addition to the one-eighth royalty, and providing for the employment of a mineral inspector and making an appropriation therefor.
HB 85 Caption: Relating to creating a Board of Examiners of Land Surveyors.
HB 86 Caption: Relating to amending certain articles relating to the discovery and sale of excess acreage in School Surveys and to include the discovery and sale of excess acreage in patented alternate surveys and in surveys located by virtue of certificates issued for the construction of railroads and other works.
HB 124 Caption: Relating to amending laws relating to the qualifications of drainage district commissioners.
HB 125 Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to the appointment of a Tax Assessor and Collector of Water Improvement Districts.
34th Regular Session
HB 244 Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay the salaries of officers and employees of certain eleemosynary institutions.
HB 245 Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay salaries of judges and for the support of the Judicial Department for two years between September 1, 1915 and August 31, 1917.
HB 246 Caption: Relating to making appropriations for the support of the State Government for two years between September 1, 1915 and August 31, 1917 and prescribing certain regulations and restrictions with respect thereto.
HB 247 Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay the salaries of officers and employees of certain educational institutions.
HB 323 Caption: Relating to validating irrigation district bonds issued where petitions were signed by a majority vote of the property owners.
HB 340 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for the collection of taxes in irrigation districts; providing a penalty.
HB 345 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the sale of and appraisement of certain school lands in West Texas; making an appropriation.
HB 346 Caption: Relating to providing for subdividing sections of public free school land situated in certain counties where such sections are of uniform quality and topography and water has been so developed either by wells, ditches, canals or reservoirs that the subdivisions embraced in such sections can be irrigated, provided such subdivisions shall not be permitted in cases where there would be a probable loss to the school fund by reason of such subdivision.
HB 442 Caption: Relating to providing for the sale of lands belonging to the public free school fund and the several state asylums funds of the State on the 1st day of September, 1915, and on the 1st day of January, May, and September of each year thereafter.
HB 518 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute authorizing the investment of the proceeds of the sale of lands granted to counties for educational purposes in bonds.
34th 1st Called Session
HB 64 Caption: Relating to creating the Independent School District of Buena Vista, in Pecos County, Texas.
HR 21 Caption: Commending the Choral Club of Prairie View Normal School for their performance for the Legislature.